title: [Pleural drainage for the treatment of the acute empyema].
abstract: Treatment of 675 patients with the acute pleural empyema was analyzed and supplemented with anatomometric investigations of costophrenic sinus in 60 male corpses. Technical features of effective pleural drainage were fundamentally substantiated and depicted in pictures and schemes. The original method of the retrograde thoracoscopic drainage with the original device were suggested.
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Balandina
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Amarantov
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry / Q000379:methods*; D001344:Autopsy; D004322:Drainage / Q000295:instrumentation*; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018579:Patient Selection; D010994:Pleura / Q000473:pathology; D020708:Thoracoscopes; D013906:Thoracoscopy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices